Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer

Like the wind, which we cannot see yet know is all around us, love is
often more easily perceived through its effects. As we transcend the
boundaries of ego in order to love and be loved, we put aside
self-centeredness and experience unity with another, and compassion,
peace, joy, excitement, and fulfillment are the inevitable results. It
is irrelevant whether the focus is a lover, a child, a relative, or a
friend; the results are both familiar and novel, more so when love is
returned in kind. But Paramahansa Yogananda noted that "to describe
love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully
describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know
its flavor. So with love." Those who have tasted of it often equate
love with jealousy, bitterness, resentment, lust, or aggressive
attachment, but it is none of these things. Love is both a feeling and
an action, for as it brings us into the light, so do we strive for the
happiness, safety, health, and fulfillment of those we love.

Much of the mystery is rooted in the incomprehensibility of love's
purpose. Self-sacrifice, procreation, caring, and romance can all exist
separate from love. It is possible to have intense feelings for others
but not define those feelings as love. And yet love remains a powerful
and universal force that uplifts, inspires, and is strong enough to
bring about great change.

It is true that love can be fleeting and accepts few controls or
conditions. The strongest loves blaze into being and wither away in an
instant or last lifetimes. The one constant is the release of emotion.
Love is not learned but brought forth from within because the basic
nature of the human animal is love. It is only fear that causes the
need to love and be loved to be buried. When we accept our worthiness
and reject indifference, it is then that we are able to become outlets
of love."
~ Unknown

"Feel the Love Generation!"
~ Bob Sinclar feat. Gary Pine

"Love is the most beautiful gift we are given to share".
~ Anonymous

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love".
~ Sophocles

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination".
~ Franois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire'

"If a thing loves, it is infinite".
~ William Blake

"To be loved, love."
~ Publius Ovidius 'Ovid' Naso

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been
left behind in the Sixties, that's his/her problem. Love and Peace are
eternal".
~ John Winston Ono Lennon

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it".
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace".
~ Jimi Hendrix

"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is
therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish
is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life,
just as you breathe to live".
~ Swami Vivekananda

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
~ 'The Right Honourable' Benjamin Disraeli

"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing".
~ Blaise Pascal

"One love, one heart, let's get together and feel alright."
~ Robert Nesta 'Bob' Marley

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none".
~ William Shakespeare

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others".
~ Vincent van Gogh

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love".
~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Love demands all, and has a right to all".
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death".
~ Paul Thomas Mann

"And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations
at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is
the region of the heart."
~ Aristotle

"The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness".
~ Kabir

"A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day".
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of
loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other
person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the
value of what we have done".
~ 'Blessed Mother Teresa' Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
~ 'Mevlana' Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

"Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity."
~ Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff

"The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision."
~ Kall

"The more you judge, the less you love".
~ Honore de Balzac

"All that we are
is the result of what we think.
How then can a man escape being filled with hatred, if his mind is
constantly repeating: 'He misused me, he hit me, he defeated me, he
robbed me.' ?
Hatred can never put an end to hatred;
hate is conquered only by love."
~ Siddhartha Gautama 'Buddha'

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet".
~ Plato

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence
nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Do you love your Creator? Love your fellow-beings first."
~ Muhammad ur 'Rasulu Allah'

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love".
~ Lev Nikolayevitch 'Leo' Tolstoy

"He is not a lover who does not love forever".
~ Euripides

"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not
know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law
of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who
discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our
modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and
so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings".
~ Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi

"We
Are not
In pursuit of formalities
Or fake religious
Laws,
For through the stairway of existence
We have come to God's
Door.
We are
People who need to love, because
Love is the soul's life,
Love is simply creation's greatest joy.
Through
The stairway of existence,
O, through the stairway of existence, Hafez,
Have
You now come,
Have we all now come to
The Beloved's
Door."
~ Khwajeh Shams ad-Din Muhammad 'Hafez'-e Shirazi

"They say it is to know the union with love that the soul takes union with the body".
~ Tiruvalluvar

"Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without
admitting the element of self, and the empire will be governed."
~ Zhuang Zi

"Teach this triple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech, and a
life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity."
~ Siddhartha Gautama 'Buddha'

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil".
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course".
~ Gibran Khalil Gibran

"Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others,
sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had
more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal."
~ 'His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama' Tenzin Gyatso (speaking on the "Golden Rule")

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence
you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence
merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence
multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid
of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies
hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness
in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars must be broken, or we
shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours".
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates".
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
~ 'Mevlana' Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

"Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition. They somehow already know
what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary".
~ Steven Paul Jobs

"Love one another!"
~ John 15:12

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
~ Confucius

"Love conquers all; and let us submit to love".
~ Publius Vergilius Maro

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
~ 'His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama' Tenzin Gyatso

"Im sorry, but I dont want to be an emperor. Thats not my business.
I dont want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone
- if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help
one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each
others happiness - not by each others misery. We dont want to hate
and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And
the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life
can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned
mens souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us
into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut
ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our
knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We
think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need
humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without
these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very
nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries
out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my
voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of
despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that
makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear
me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the
passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human
progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power
they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men
die, liberty will never perish......

Soldiers! Dont give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you -
enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to
think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like
cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Dont give yourselves to these
unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You
are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of
humanity in your hearts! You dont hate! Only the unloved hate - the
unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Dont fight for slavery! Fight for
liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: the Kingdom of
God is within man - not one man nor a group of men, but in ALL men! In
YOU! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The
power to create happiness! YOU, the people, have the power to make this
life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then
- in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a
chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they
lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free
themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that
promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national
barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us
fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will
lead to all mens happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us
all Unite!"
~ 'Sir' Charles Spencer 'Charlie' Chaplin (The Great Dictator - 1940)

"Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye
one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness
and fellowship. He Who is the Daystar of Truth beareth Me witness! So
powerful is the light of Unity that it can illuminate the whole Earth."
~ 'Baha'u'llah' Mirza Husayn -Ali

I was never emotionally invested in the guy. Jamye

What??? You're going to get the fish you already threw back in the ocean? Amine C.

Didn't you know that peaches are seasonal and bananas are permanent? D - Thank you for all the free peaches! HaHa

Love & Time are the only things that cannot be bought, only spent.

Jealousy is always born with love, but never dies with it.

Bittermoon: Nothing ever surpassed that first awakening; I might have been Adam with the taste of apple still in my mouth. I was looking at all the beauty in the world embodied in a single female form and I knew with sudden blinding certainty: THIS WAS IT!

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear.

You can give without loving but you can't love without giving.

Since I was so quickly done for, I wonder what I was begun for? Jessica

Bita: Don't make it happen, let it happen.

On Love: There's a mental block when you already carry one in your heart.

BacK NexT(to Marriage)